There are more racists, you see, racistly using the race card for their racist ends. And they’re very cleverly disguised — so well disguised, in fact, that to the ordinary voter might mistake his accusation for being incredibly stupid. But no, Voter, you’d be wrong. Those racists are the Congressional Black Caucus.

The ridiculous, pointless contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder was totally cool and not at all a silly GOP spectacle — but the Congressional Black Caucus walking out of the vote rather than simply voting against it, well, that’s prejudiced, man. From West’s Facebook:

Today the Congressional Black Caucus and other liberal Members of Congress judged the Attorney General by the color of his skin, and not by the content of his character. I am disappointed my colleagues would rather engage in a political stunt to distract the American people from knowing the truth behind the Attorney General’s disregard of the law and disrespect of congressional oversight to provide requested documents.

Oh, good. Liberals disagree with you about holding Holder in contempt? Say it’s just because Holder is black, and paraphrase Martin Luther King when you do it — that’ll help send it home. West also called the walk-out “a political stunt to distract the American people” without even a smidgen of irony; it’s not clear whether any of his hysterical supporters had the nerve to send him an article from biased Marxist progressive liberal rag Fortune, which Thursday revealed that, uh, the whole “Fast and Furious” scandal is all made up:

Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn.

Egad! What racism. If Holder were white, there is no stinking WAY Fortune would be trying to figure out what Darrel Issa has been utterly incapable of doing. The story makes ridiculous Jim Crow assertions like “the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies” and quotes racist government officials saying things like “Republican senators are whipping up the country into a psychotic frenzy with these reports that are patently false.”

Don’t you SEE it? Black people stood up against something they thought to be insulting, partisan political theater. What gall — Dr. King would be rolling in his grave. [Fortune via Mother Jones]

Feigned outrage over feigned outrage over a feigned outrage?? This is too confusing for me – must watch kitten videos or something.

MosesInvests

Actually, I think West (R-Oreo) is displaying feigned outrage over *real* outrage over feigned outrage.

lulzmonger

WE HAVE TO GO DERPER.

Goonemeritus

Thank God our Nation has finally because of the sacrifice of millions gotten to the point where a black man could be in the position to shit all over the sacrifice of millions.

Jadetiger79

That's fucking hilarious.

jodyleek

Baiters gonna bait.

Vecchiojohn

And West is a master-baiter.
(Sorry, I'm a little hung over this morning.)

freakishlywrong

Reverse Oreo war criminal has got to go.

http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/ actor212

And not even the cool rainbow ghey Oreo…

elburritodeluxe

West treats the Constitution like he treated innocent Iraqis!

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Sadly, Alan West is surrounded by liberal blacks who think he's an asshole and conservative whites who think he's an Uncle Tom. He really should be paranoid.

elburritodeluxe

Would it not be awesome if Adam West ran against him? Just thinking out of the box here.

proudgrampa

dadadadadada… Batman!

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

I nominate Alan West to lead his people (teabaggers) out of America to a new promised land. Perhaps freedom loving, non-socialist Canada???

http://www.wonkette.com ManchuCandidate

Plenty of space in the Yukon.

Biff

Nunavut, even better.

viennawoods13

Dear god no.

Guppy

Remember the "Promised Land" had to be cleared of indigenous people first, so West would probably prefer Mexico.

http://www.wonkette.com ManchuCandidate

Uncle Tom, Uncle Tomming.

freakishlywrong

a political stunt to distract the American people
would be scheduling a wholly cynical, childish racist vote of contempt on the same day as a major SCOTUS decision and hoping to bury it in the snooze cycle. Amirite, Boner?

chascates

He also says here are 5 communists on the Supreme Court.

Dildeaux

Uncle Tom West

http://johnnyzhivago.blogspot.com johnnyzhivago

Wonder if anyone in his district raises the possibility that the guy is just flat out insane? I mean – just crazy from his Iraq days (not his fault) and he needs actual mental help?

Biff

That's a feature, not a bug!

Guppy

Perhaps, but obviously not a majority of them.

Unless the idea was to vote for him to get him 800 miles away.

i_AM_ready

West hasn't denied he's insane, so we can assume it's true. We'd better start spreading the word so he can get the psychiatric care he needs.

Also Scalia hasn't denied that he has that disease where you get angry and curse all the time.

randcoolcatdaddy

West, are you really that self-loathing or you just a crass tool, looking for a hand-out from Republican whiteys?

I suppose only your conscience and psychiatrist will ever really know.

Biff

I've got lots of guns, but not even one of them has the ability to walk. Technology is something, isn't it?

http://simplyleftbehind.blogspot.com/ actor212

I've got one that comes, does that count?

I mean, comes with me…

HarryButtle

This is my rifle, this is my gun…

Guppy

Do guns have the right to bear themselves?

Biff

I always thought it was "bare"…

Guppy

Do walking arms have the right to bare legs?

Barb

Plain has given her thumbs up for this guy to be VEEP. Is this some sort of weird political draft where the loser gets to pick?

Biff

Well that's it, then–the king-maker savant has spoken.

James Michael Curley

Before August 30, 2008 – Governor of a rural, perpetually frozen state, under investigation and doomed to three more years of the state legislature calling for her resignation.

After August 30, 2008 – Old, mushminded Senator with a fetish for younger women names her as VEEP. IN the ensuing years gets multiple TV shows, big new houses in multiple states, state investigations dropped when she quits as governor and the adulation usually afforded teen aged rock stars who give the paparazzi crotch shots while getting out of limos.

There is something seriously wrong with how we are keeping score in the winners/loosers column.

Barb

Palin got slammed on Twitter all day and all night for her "Obama lied; freedom died" tweet. I forgot how vicious people can be.

Palin makes her statements and then she retreats. She doesn't defend herself. I bet she will wait a few days and then post on her Facebook wall that people are threatening to kill her or some other victim whine.

James Michael Curley

If I owned a Twitter account I would respond quite feverishly to that tweet. I also get quite surprised by what so many post as 'discourse.' I used to fantasize in the early days of electronic communication (CIS 1981) that it would bring forwarded a period of greater transparency, knowledge and cooperation. It hasn't. Just more people ready to yell obscenities at you on the highway of life as they escape in their cars and trucks.

JustPixelz

Is he a witch too?

James Michael Curley

Is that picture a still from the movie American Vampire?

Terry

I honestly wish that Dr. Martin Luther King would haunt the shit out of this guy.

SayItWithWookies

This is clearly all racist Eric Holder's fault — if he'd only give Darrell Issa the evidence of the conspiracy he's sure is going on, there'd be no problem. It's Holder's intransigence in continuing to insist that such evidence doesn't exist that's causing the problem.

But honestly I don't think Holder's skin color has anything to do with it — the dumbass white Democrats who didn't walk out ought to be the ones ashamed of themselves.

freakishlywrong

The worst part of this is that people actually VOTE for this asswad. People you smile and wave at everyday are voting for these wingnutty blowjobs.

Not_So_Much

Too many guns have been fired next to his head. Oh, wait, that was him doing it to POWs.

Take your flat-top fade and fade away. Soon.

Biff

If only Issa had the power to waterboard–then Holder would cooperate, you'd see.

didgen

When will this appallingly monumental crime be solved? Quick get Vin Diesel and a tattoo artist! XXX!

OK, so as long as you don't like the person, you can hate their race! So simple! Why have we been arguing about this shit for 100 years? And Allen West is such an examplar of "typical blackness" that it makes total sense! Really, dude, snarking is not permission not to think your shit through.

BaldarTFlagass

In other race related news, there's a NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Kentucky tomorrow. I wonder if Allen will be watching; I know I won't be.

ingloriousbytch

Allen West needs to be surrounded by psych nurses with Thorazine and restraints.

http://wonkette.com/ starfanglednut

Starfanglednut libel!

prommie

I just keep seeing Chappelle's black KKK member.

FakaktaSouth

"Because, she was, a n—–lover"
Oh this racism is killing me.
One of the greatest shows ever.

ttommyunger

Shoot low, Allen, they might be riding Shetlands…..

PubOption

What's the race card anyway? A low spade?

Dashboard Buddha

[rimshot]

JustPixelz

When we accused Iran of arming the insurgents in Iraq, West and his like-minded cohorts said that was an act of war against the U.S. I wonder how Mexico feels about how our laws and policies help arm the drug gangs.

timbo71351

Fuck you Florida voters for electing this asshole.

http://inappropriatejobpostings.blogspot.com/ fuflans

and for myriad other things too!

Antispandex

Jeeze doesn't the left know anything? Walk-outs, filibusters, government shut-downs…all of that is unfair, if the left does it. You see, the way it is SUPPOSED to work in America is, the right-wing stomps it feet and throws a shit fit, and the left gives in. Then, when the right is in power, the left rolls over because "it is wrong to be an obstructionist". Didn't they cover government in your home schooling pamphlet?

Guppy

Was Hamoodi judged by the content of his character?

Biel_ze_Bubba

Ehhh…. I'm gonna go out a limb here, and say that the Black Caucus would not have walked out if Holder was a bit more melanin-deficient. Which is not to say that West isn't a crazy fucker.

Dashboard Buddha

On the other hand, if Holder and the President were more melanin-deficient and republican, this wouldn't even see the light of day.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Seeing as how it never did see the light of day when the president and AG were more melanin-deficient … you just might have a point.

Wasn't just the Black Caucus that walked out. Something like a hundred Dems led by Pelosi walked out. And let's remember there is a theory that the GOP is doing this in part as payback for the DOJ's efforts to stop states from implementing these voter ID laws that disproportionately affect minority voters. The effect of race on the politics here is a little more complicated than just Holder being black.

Its appropriate, made up racism in response to a made up crime. Truly, the entire conservative platform is a form of postmodernist fiction.

http://inappropriatejobpostings.blogspot.com/ fuflans

Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic

i don't really understand any of this really. i thought in AZ guns could walk, run a marathon, belly up to the bar or just stone cold shoot a congresswoman if they wanted to.

Biel_ze_Bubba

Yes, but only if their papers check out.

glamourdammerung

Someone needs to loudly ask West publicly if he has checked out the psychiatric programs at the VA.

TribecaMike

Allen West replies: "No, Dr. King would be rolling around in a bed with Bayard Rustin, because they were both commie fags. God hates commie fags."

lulzmonger

A week ago it was libtards who wanted this story to just quietly die.

Now the actual facts are seeing the light of day & my oh my, look who's been lying their asses off the whole fuckin' time. Boehner may be an utter sot, but as the hide-the-putrid-salami timing of the contempt vote shows, even a snivelling piss-tank like him can smell the hammer coming down.

I hope/suspect the proverbial worm is turning.
Make it so.
Selah.

rickmaci

You always know for sure exactly what you're dealing with when you see those batshitfuckingcrazyoutofmymind eyes.

extreme_left

Great photo… he looks like somebody just rumbled his secret stash of crazy underneath the kitchen sink.

DahBoner

28 investigations against Clinton. Nothing. No corruption. Just an intern who touched his pee pee….